NCAA Basketball 2014-2015 (This may help ease the pain)

[MadBurgerMaker]

I think Barnes was upset his team had to score so much to win, he dreams of a 1-0 game.

He doesn't bother to have his teams work on their free throw shooting in his dreams either? 

[derspiess]

Got a rare chance to see WVU play a few minutes from my house at NKU. WVU shot terribly early in the game but their defense was scary good through. We hung out courtside after the game because... no one was stopping us. Tommy got to be in the presence of the almighty Huggins, and my nephew had his picture taken with most of WVU's players. My brother talked to a few of their recruits because he actually follows that crap.  But the highlight of the evening was Tommy getting to meet The Big O, Oscar Robertson.

[Valmy]

Oscar Robertson had ten triple doubles in College.  That's nuts.

[derspiess]

As I posted on Facebook, I'll have to remind Tommy later that it's something he'll want to tell his grandkids about.

[MadBurgerMaker]

But the highlight of the evening was Tommy getting to meet The Big O, Oscar Robertson.

Nice. 

[Admiral Yi]

I didn't know he was still alive.

[katmai]

Very cool. Oscar is my favorite ball player.

[derspiess]

I didn't know he was still alive.

Still kickin'.  He's a couple years older than my dad, but looks a bit younger.

[derspiess]

Anyway for the second straight year the Big 12 won the Big 12-SEC Challenge

[grumbler]

Anyway for the second straight year the Big 12 won the Big 12-SEC Challenge

Unless it is football or baseball, that's not that impressive.

The Big Ten won the Big Ten-ACC challenge for the second (maybe third) year in a row.  That's more worth crowing about.

[derspiess]

Anyway for the second straight year the Big 12 won the Big 12-SEC Challenge

Unless it is football or baseball, that's not that impressive.

The Big Ten won the Big Ten-ACC challenge for the second (maybe third) year in a row.  That's more worth crowing about.

SEC HAS UK AND STUFF

[derspiess]

Also, you might want to keep your head down on this thread, g.  I'm not gonna gloat over it because I like Beilein, but Michigan basketball just had its Appy State moment.

[grumbler]

Also, you might want to keep your head down on this thread, g.  I'm not gonna gloat over it because I like Beilein, but Michigan basketball just had its Appy State moment.

At least it wasn't a Stanford or James Madison or a Pittsburg moment, it was just an Appy State moment.  When a young team faces a team that decides that that night is the night it will shoot out of its mind, young teams (even when they are talented) have trouble adjusting.  This only happens every year to somebody.  It is disappointing, but not significant. 

I'm certainly not going to "keep my head down" for fear of the disdain of a Mountaineer fan! 

[derspiess]

Not my disdain.  Like I said, I like Beilein (and Michigan as well).  But I remember the back & forth that went on over months if not years between you & others here re: the Appy State game.  Hell, I think someone brought it up again this year.

[grumbler]

Not my disdain.  Like I said, I like Beilein (and Michigan as well).  But I remember the back & forth that went on over months if not years between you & others here re: the Appy State game.  Hell, I think someone brought it up again this year.

Timmay and the Timmay-wannabes try every so often to float that App State game as the "greatest upset of all time," or whatever, but I don't think any non-Timmay really thinks that (especially when Stanford defeated an unbeaten USC as a 50-point underdog later that very season).  It doesn't bother me when the Timmays bring up that actual game, or when they make phony comparisons between that game and stuff like basketball games. Feces facit.